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Friday, February 24, 2006

I am trying to find a recorded version of Arkansas Traveller with the lyrics. On iTunes all 15+ versions have no singing in the music sample, so I can't tell if anyone has singing at all. Does anyone know of a good version with the words out there anywhere?

5 comments:

Diane
said...

Are any of the itunes version by Michelle Shocked? It looks as if she has a CD out there of old fashioned music (titled Arkansas Traveller), including this tune. I can't, however, preview any of them.What on earth is this for? Is the Hippie German School studying American Minstral music?

No, it's not for hippie German school. We like to sing folk songs and the like with the kiddos of an evening and we have a favorite song book called Gonna Sing My Head Off!. I've always thought it would be great to gather various artists renditions of as many of the songs in the book as I can find. We owned a lot already and I've bought some more from iTunes, but there are a few elusive tunes and it's bugging me.

We have that book too! I love the songs but the music directions are like no other sheet music I've seen. Instead of pianissimo or forte, it says energetically, soothingly, spunky, cute, nimble, as if you're seasick, saucy, fearlessly. I took piano lessons a few years ago and brought in the book to learn one song and my piano teacher laughed so hard, I had to hold her on the bench.